Hatch

This watercolor painting was created for an Illustration Two assignment at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. The assignment challenged us to build a visual narrative around a single word; for this illustration, that word was 'Hatch.' The illustration depicts a surreal and evocative scene: a pair of hands, rendered with careful anatomical detail, hold the two jagged halves of a broken eggshell. Rising from the center is a russet-colored bird in mid-flight, its wings spread wide as if freshly hatched or liberated from the shell. The composition uses a clean, white background to emphasize the delicate texture of the watercolor and the stark, symbolic contrast between the empty shell and the sudden movement of the bird.